Broccoli

Broccoli (scientific name: Brassica oleracea var. italica) and perennial herb in the genus Brassica, Department of Brassicaceae is an annual grass native to The Mediterranean coast. Yellow flowers bloom in the spring. With a stem harvested ago flowering stem apical inflorescence (flower buds of) what is edible. In the typical Green and yellow vegetables, is a fellow of the cabbage (Cabbage). Boiling flowers and eaten as a salad, soup, stir-fry, colorful but taste habit. Ingredients are vitamin B and C, beta-carotene, potassium, calcium, chromium, plant fibers. Germination, called the hypocotyl and cotyledon fresh broccoli sprouts rich in sulforaphane, cancer will be the prevention and suppression of h. pylori bacteria.　

General name: Broccoli, scientific name: Brassica oleracea var. italica, aka: green flower vegetables,Bud flower vegetables, origin: Mediterranean, Habitat: all over Japan, environment: cool climate, plant: 1 m, flower color: yellow, petals number four, flowering time: spring, harvest (wintry) u seed stage: July-September → harvest: from November to next year March, Harvest time (spring type): u seed stage → February harvest season: April-June, leaf color: light green.